Jacob Sullum on Jay Rockefeller’s Irrational Hostility Toward E-Cigarettes

“I’m ashamed of you,” Jay
Rockefeller told Jason Healy and Craig Weiss during a Senate
hearing last week. “I don’t know how you go to sleep at
night.…You’re what’s wrong with this country.” What had
Healy and Weiss done to rouse Rockefeller’s ire? As the presidents
of two leading electronic cigarette companies, they had promoted
what Healy plausibly called “the most significant tobacco harm
reduction product ever.” Jacob Sullum says Rockefeller’s
sanctimonious outburst illustrates the baffling hostility to that
product among people who claim to care about smoking-related
disease and death.

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